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Obama’s Advisors – A Source For Concern
Yoram Ettinger, Ynet, July 232, 2008
Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, is not a key member of the Senate committees on foreign relations, armed services or intelligence, has not initiated-led any significant legislation and has not devoted himself to national security issues. He surged into the Senate and the presidential race from the Illinois local-political-social arena. Obama relies on a battery of experienced advisors, who influence/shape his world view and maybe even US policy and US-Israel relations for the next 4-8 years. However, the record of his advisors – most of whom served in the Carter and Clinton Administrations – constitute a source of concern.
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These aren't all of Obama's questionable advisers, but these are the ones I'll use to get the thread going.
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Tony Lake - "He played a lead role in the policy, which stabbed the Shah of Iran – a most loyal ally of the US in a most critical area to US interests - in his back, catapulted Khomeini to prominence and constituted a tailwind to the Islamic Revolution.
Lake was the luminary and National Security Advisor of President Clinton, who shaped a policy, which approached international and Islamic terrorism as a challenge for law enforcement agencies rather than for the Chairman of the joint Chiefs-of-Staff.
Lake’s policy defined terrorists as criminals who should be brought to justice, rather than wartime lethal enemies who should be brought down on their knees. The outcome of Lake’s world view has burdened the US and the Free World since September 11, 2001."
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Susan Rice served as John Kerry’s senior foreign policy advisor in his 2004 presidential campaign. She wanted to appoint Jim Baker or Jimmy Carter – the most anti-Israel Secretary of State and President since 1948 - as the Special Emissary to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Rice was an Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary Albright and President Clinton, representing a world view, which blames the West for the predicament of the Third World, identifying Israel with the West and the Arabs with the Third World. Just like Condoleezza Rice, she examines the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the lenses of American Black struggle for civil rights, classifying Palestinians as the supposed oppressed Blacks. If MLK would know that he is compared to Abu Mazen and Arafat – the role models of hate education, homicide bombing and systematic violation of commitments – he would declare: “I Have a Nightmare!”
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(I never realized this about Sec'y Rice!
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Madeleine Albright was Clinton’s Secretary of State, promoting Susan Rice. Albright considered Arafat a genuine partner for peace negotiation and a potential ally of the US. She transformed Arafat into the #1 Frequent Visitor to the White House, overlooked documentation of Arafat’s loathsome terrorism and anti-US policy, lobbied Congress for larger foreign aid to Arafat and enhanced his standing in Western capitals. Albright advanced a policy of negotiation-rather-than-confrontation with terror regimes. Hence, the absence of an effective preventive counter-terrorism policy and the lack of appropriate retaliation to the Islamic terrorist bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (300 murdered) and the bombing of the USS Cole (17 murdered). The policy of negotiation-rather-than-confrontation was interpreted by Islamic terrorists as weakness, thus paving the road to the 2001 Twin Towers and Pentagon terrorism (almost 3,000 murdered).
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Here's my favorite retread to admire/despise. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a brilliant tactician when it came to the Soviet Union but had a blind spot, as many on Obama's advisory team seem to have, regarding Islam and terrorism.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski’s and Lee Hamilton’s long track record is replete with failures and problematic Israeli aspects. As Carter’s National Security Advisor, Brzezinski led a policy of US pessimism in face of the Third World and spearheaded the initiative, which facilitated the 1979 Khomeini volcanic eruption and its continued aftershocks. He has been one of the staunchest hostile critics of Israel, considering Israel a strategic liability, contending that US support of Israel stems from political expediency, supporting recognition of Hamas and criticizing Israel for its, supposed, belligerence during the 2006 war in Lebanon.
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/F...eportId=234860
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Lee Hamilton demonstrated cold-critical attitude toward Israel, while serving as the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East, embracing Arafat as a supposed moderate leader. Hamilton is the co-chair, along with Jim Baker, of the “Iraq Study Group,” which recommends a US dialogue with rogue regimes. It defines the Arab-Israeli conflict as the crux of Middle East turbulence and terrorism, and therefore calls for sweeping Israeli concessions as a panacea for regional malaise. How intriguing to believe that a resolution of a 100 year old Arab-Israeli conflict could be a solution for a 1,400 year old Inter-Muslim turbulence?!
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When President Bush created the Iraq Study Group, I had hopes that it would come up with the right conclusions. But as soon as I heard it said that one of their recommendations was to negotiate with Iran for our withdrawal from Iraq, I KNEW that the effort was basically worthless. And I kept trying to give the report credence the same way someone might continue supporting Obama even though they have the sneaking suspicion that his campaign is finished.
But I couldn't.
Just like you Obama fans won't be able to continue supporting him at some point with all the unfortunate information being revealed about him and his campaign.
And it all has to do with facts from these categories:
Heritage, People, Methods, Inexperience, Judgment, Policies, Character.
08-05-2008, 09:52 AM
Obama’s Advisors – A Source For Concern
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